Weekend on the islands

Just back from a weekend on Banana islands with the other volunteers.  We left at lunch time on Friday to go meet Charlotte, her mum Andi and his brother at Bureh beach before travelling to Kent to get the boat to Dublin island – home hehe, and it felt like it could be home! Went for a swim in the beautiful clean ocean (cleanest I’ve felt all week) and then packed up our stuff to go to Kent. We started walking and half way there we got a taxi – 11 people in a small car, well 8 inside and 3 outside, as the driver took a bend Alusein fell off the back of the car and ripped himself up pretty badly. There was a lot of blood and screams, quite horrific and we had just been laughing and taking photos at the sight of 11 people in a car – pretty stupid eh but I think we all learned a lesson! The roads here are terrible and the drivers are reckless, I see multiple accidents each time I travel. The taxi rushed Alusein to the next town to find a doctor and we walked behind. After a few hours he was all stitched up and put to sleep and we headed for the island.

What a beautiful, unspoiled paradise, Daltons’ guesthouse is half way down Dublin Island, directly on the beach. We had a wonderful meal of fish and a few beers and hit the sack. On Saturday we got up, had breakfast and went on a fishing trip with Greg the owner for a few hours. We snorkelled around the reefs while Greg was busy harpooning our dinner for that evening. The next day we headed back to Bureh to see how Alusein was holding up and he was already back to work in his beach restaurant. There was a big party on the beach with music and food and hundreds of locals, apparently this happens on most beaches every Sunday, needless to say we joined in.

Will try and get some photos up shortly!